-became a popular tourist attraction in london (look at the crazies :()

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private homes& community mental health programs were beneficial, but only treated a small % of people, enterAsylums- hospitals & monasteries that care for people w/ mental illness. Asylums began to overflow with people and became like prisons.

Dorothea Dixpg 12,13,22

-Boston schoolteacher who made humane care a public & political concern in USA

- Campained from 1841-1881 for reforms- resulted in more laws & gov. funding

-Resulted in State Hospitals- State-run public mental institutions

Hippocrates
pg 9

-Greek philosopher, Called the father of modern medicine

-saw abnormal behavior as a product of some kind of brain pathology (had "natural" not spiritual cause)

a federal law that generally prevents group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits from imposing less favorable benefit limitations on those benefits than on medical/surgical benefits.

bio relatives are more likely than non-relatives to have it -- 15% of relatives diplay it

--however families tend to live in similar surroundings so may not be inheritable?

a result of gamma-aninobutyric acid(GABA) receptors not working or there being too few

also a malfunctioning in brain circuts-networks of brain structures that work together w/ help from neurotransmittersto produce emotion reaction. (profrontal cortex, amygdala& anterior cingulate cortex)